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aide, Molly Michael, told investigators that more than once she
got requests or tasks from Trump written on the back of
notecards that she later recognized as sensitive White House
materials, ABC News reported on Monday, citing sources.
The notecards had visible classification markings used to brief
Trump while he was still in office about phone calls with
foreign leaders or other international matters, the news outlet
said.
Michael became Trump's executive assistant in the White House in
2018 and continued to work for him when he left office. She
resigned last year, in the wake of Trump's alleged refusal to
comply with federal requests, ABC News said.
A Trump spokesperson dismissed the report as "illegal leaks" and
denied wrongdoing.
Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential
nomination, has been charged along with two aides with illegally
storing troves of classified documents at his personal residence
and lying to federal investigators who sought to retrieve them.
Trump was charged in an indictment in June with criminal counts,
including violations of the Espionage Act, conspiracy to
obstruct justice, and making false statements to investigators.
He has pleaded not guilty.
Trump is also under separate indictments in Washington, D.C.,
and Georgia over his alleged efforts to reverse his 2020
election loss to Democratic President Joe Biden and in New York
over a hush-money payment he paid to a porn star. He denies
wrongdoing.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Lisa
Shumaker)
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